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Speaker 1: On this edition of OTP Road to Nashville analysis of

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Speaker 1: the top quarterbacks in the twenty nineteen NFL Draft, including

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Speaker 1: a conversation with Missouri's Drew Lock, we'll look at how

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Speaker 1: the first round quarterback selections will potentially affect the title.

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Speaker 1: Tennessee quarterback Marcus Mariota held his annual Motivate golf event

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Speaker 1: in Hawaii last week, and our Amy Wells was there

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Speaker 1: and we sit down with NFL Vice President Matt Shapiro

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Speaker 1: to talk Nashville draft flavor. OTP Road to Nashville is

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Speaker 1: here and we're here. It's draft money. Can you believe it?

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Speaker 1: Amy well I can't believe it. I cannot believe it's

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Speaker 1: finally here. I'm so excited. It's twenty four days until

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Speaker 1: players are drafted in Nashville. Welcome to the OTP Road

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Speaker 1: to Nashville. I mentioned that she's Amy Wells. I'm Mike Keith.

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Speaker 1: We are so glad to have you with us. We

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Speaker 1: are so pumped that it's draft month and we're going

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Speaker 1: to do this show every weekday through April thirtieth, actually

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Speaker 1: two more days following the draft, we will be doing

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Speaker 1: this show. Amy Wells, give our audience you're feeling as

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Speaker 1: to what OTP Road to Nashville is all about. It's

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Speaker 1: going to be everything that you need to know the authorities,

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Speaker 1: the authority on the Nashville Draft in twenty nineteen. That's

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. You are going to be able to

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Speaker 1: learn about the prospects that are going to be in

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Speaker 1: the draft. We're going to break down the position groups

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Speaker 1: and how what the needs are for not only the

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Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans, but for teams across the NFL. We're going

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Speaker 1: to be talking about everything that is happening in Nashville

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Speaker 1: to talk about all of them. And then don't forget

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Speaker 1: the players are coming back on October. On April fifteenth, good, yeah,

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Speaker 1: so soon, yes, April fifteenth, the players we'll be back

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Speaker 1: at St. Thomas Sports Park, and so that will be

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Speaker 1: So we are going to have everything that you need

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Speaker 1: to know about what's going on with the draft and

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Speaker 1: the Titans right here. The thing that's so exciting to

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Speaker 1: me and I sent an email to some friends before

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Speaker 1: the program encouraging them to join us, and I said listen.

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Speaker 1: We're not trying to be ESPN. We're not trying to

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Speaker 1: be Fox. We're not trying to be NFL Network. They

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Speaker 1: do a great job. We're not trying to be the

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Speaker 1: local media. They will do a great job covering everything

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Speaker 1: surrounding it. But we do have a unique perspective. You

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Speaker 1: getting the draft. Our owner was a big part of

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Speaker 1: the process. We certainly work with the head coach and

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Speaker 1: work with the general manager. We've been to Pro Days,

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Speaker 1: we went to the Senior Bowl, we had a chance

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Speaker 1: to Hawaii last week to spend time with Marcus Mariota.

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Speaker 1: So we have this interaction. We have this unusual perspective

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Speaker 1: story of the Nashville Draft will be. That's the goal. Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: We have such a unique perspective in what we get

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Speaker 1: to do. We get to be kind of flies on

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Speaker 1: understand how everything about Draft night's going to work. On

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Speaker 1: Oh absolutely. If you walk into a room and just

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Speaker 1: a good sect to morning headlines. Let's start with Ed Oliver.

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Speaker 1: He continues to be the buzz of the draft. If

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Speaker 1: of experiences. So I think you're gonna getting experience quarterback

432
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Speaker 1: that'll come in and he'll also be a little fiery too.

433
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Speaker 1: He's gonna have a little swag about them. Where does

434
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Speaker 1: that swag come from? You're a super confident guy and

435
00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:24,800
Speaker 1: you can see it on the field and off the field.

436
00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:26,480
Speaker 1: Where does that come from? I think it just comes

437
00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:28,600
Speaker 1: from how long I've been playing this sport and then

438
00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:31,520
Speaker 1: all the sports I end up playing, just realizing that

439
00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:33,680
Speaker 1: people are going to pick you apart if you don't

440
00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:36,280
Speaker 1: have a little confidence. They're gonna see the lack of

441
00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:38,439
Speaker 1: confidence in you really quick, because I know I do.

442
00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:40,199
Speaker 1: I like to find those guys and go ahead and

443
00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:42,200
Speaker 1: pick on them and put a little birdie in their

444
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Speaker 1: ear and get them, get them worked up. Because if

445
00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:45,760
Speaker 1: you're a real competitor and you know guys around and

446
00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:47,520
Speaker 1: you'll be able to pick that up pretty quick. Are

447
00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:50,320
Speaker 1: you a trash talker like Philip Rivers style? Nah? I

448
00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:52,600
Speaker 1: try not to be. On the basketball court, I definitely

449
00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:54,440
Speaker 1: was because it was a lot easier face to face

450
00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:56,640
Speaker 1: Now you've got an you know, a line of scrimmage.

451
00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:59,119
Speaker 1: Guys are twelve yards away from you. It didn't necessarily

452
00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:01,159
Speaker 1: always work out. He gets a tok smack, but if

453
00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:04,040
Speaker 1: it does, the opportunity arises. I'm not afraid. The draft

454
00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:05,760
Speaker 1: is coming up. What is going to be the most

455
00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:08,240
Speaker 1: special moment for you. I think the best part is, like,

456
00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:10,240
Speaker 1: you know, I grew up being a Missouri fan and

457
00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:12,320
Speaker 1: just loving the University of Missouri. So being able to

458
00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:15,439
Speaker 1: hear you know, Drew Locke University of Missouri at the

459
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Speaker 1: draft is going to be the coolest part, all right,

460
00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:24,880
Speaker 1: Amy Wells. You had a chance to stand with him,

461
00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:26,600
Speaker 1: to get to know him a little bit. What jumped

462
00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:29,119
Speaker 1: out about Drew Locke his confidence, Like I said before,

463
00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:32,320
Speaker 1: the swag, the confidence of that guy, It just it

464
00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:35,640
Speaker 1: radiates through his pores. He knows that he can play

465
00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:38,119
Speaker 1: in the National Football League, he knows that being a

466
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Speaker 1: quarterback is what he's supposed to be doing, and he

467
00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:44,440
Speaker 1: feels so confident in his skill set. It's you can

468
00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:47,679
Speaker 1: feel it just standing next to him. Drew Locke is

469
00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:50,680
Speaker 1: going to be a first round pick on most boards,

470
00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:54,200
Speaker 1: so we kind of leave him out of this sort

471
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Speaker 1: of discussion except for a mention, because you've already seen him.

472
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Speaker 1: We want to give you a look at some of

473
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Speaker 1: the other top quarterbacks in the draft, and for that,

474
00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:07,920
Speaker 1: we have to start in Norman, Oklahoma. Kyler Kyler Kyler.

475
00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:11,720
Speaker 1: Once Heisman Trophy winner, Kyler Murray told the Oakland A's no,

476
00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:16,159
Speaker 1: and the NFL yes. The Oklahoma Sooner quarterback became the

477
00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:20,480
Speaker 1: focus of this quarterback draft, and when he measured slightly

478
00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:24,000
Speaker 1: over five ten on February twenty eighth at the NFL Combine,

479
00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:27,240
Speaker 1: things heated up even more. I have a hard time

480
00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:30,040
Speaker 1: wrapping my mind around the five foot nine quarterback, I

481
00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:34,040
Speaker 1: really do. It's something for me that I don't believe in.

482
00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:37,840
Speaker 1: I've never believed in. But you know what, I like

483
00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:40,120
Speaker 1: watching this tape. I'm intrigued by him, and I got

484
00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:41,679
Speaker 1: to do more work on him, but I am intrigued

485
00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:43,760
Speaker 1: by him. The kid can make the throws. He wasn't

486
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Speaker 1: asked to go through a lot of progressions at Oklahoma.

487
00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:47,480
Speaker 1: He played, you know, and I hear all the stats.

488
00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:49,960
Speaker 1: Why only had five passes batted down? He played behind

489
00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:53,200
Speaker 1: a good offensive line. If Kyler Murray isn't the first

490
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Speaker 1: quarterback taken in the twenty nineteen draft, it will likely

491
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Speaker 1: be Ohio States Dwayne Haskins, a man who threw fifty

492
00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:05,439
Speaker 1: touchdown passes in his only season as a Buckeye starter.

493
00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:07,679
Speaker 1: He's just a pure pocket passer. I mean, that's what

494
00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:09,480
Speaker 1: I love about him. As you can stand back there

495
00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:11,399
Speaker 1: in the pocket, He's gonna be able worth their progressions.

496
00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:13,520
Speaker 1: Can make every kind of throw. He can drive the ball,

497
00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:15,280
Speaker 1: he can throw with touch, can layer it as well.

498
00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:17,600
Speaker 1: So the big knock, the big concern is just you know,

499
00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:19,000
Speaker 1: when he has to move around little, but he's not

500
00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:22,520
Speaker 1: real sudden, He's not explosive moving around. And then there's

501
00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:26,399
Speaker 1: Missouri's Drew Lock, a man with more experience as a

502
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:31,560
Speaker 1: starter than Murray and Haskins combined a plus arm, telling

503
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:35,639
Speaker 1: spectacular very Matt Stafford liking the way that he players.

504
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:38,479
Speaker 1: He's a guy that was a d one recruited as

505
00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:42,399
Speaker 1: a basketball player. Obviously has skills and a variety of

506
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:44,000
Speaker 1: different ways. But I think he's someone that people are

507
00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:46,600
Speaker 1: excited about because if he grows and develops the way

508
00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:48,639
Speaker 1: some think, he certainly can be a guy as a

509
00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:51,240
Speaker 1: France as quarterback for a long time. After these three

510
00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:56,440
Speaker 1: and Duke's Daniel Jones. The quarterback class really gets interesting.

511
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Speaker 1: Many believe that Ryan Finley is the number five quarterback

512
00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:03,840
Speaker 1: in the twenty nineteen draft. It's one of the best

513
00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:06,679
Speaker 1: stories of this draft class. This is Ryan Finley, quarterback

514
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:11,640
Speaker 1: North Carolina State. Began his career at Boise State, sustained injuries,

515
00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:14,359
Speaker 1: battled through it, then went to Dave Doran and the

516
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:19,120
Speaker 1: Wolf packet did very good things. How would you how

517
00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:24,360
Speaker 1: would you characterize your college career that journey? An odyssey? Yeah,

518
00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:26,720
Speaker 1: I mean it was pretty fun, you know, I think

519
00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:28,480
Speaker 1: of it. I had I had two stints. I had

520
00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:31,480
Speaker 1: a stint, a three year stint at Boise State and

521
00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:34,920
Speaker 1: then a three year you know time at North Carolina State.

522
00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:36,920
Speaker 1: So I kind of got really got an opportunity to

523
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:40,080
Speaker 1: do college football twice. So I was very fortunate for that.

524
00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:42,640
Speaker 1: When it turned out, we're good. What did you learn

525
00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:45,159
Speaker 1: as a quarterback and what did you learn as a

526
00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:48,800
Speaker 1: human being going through everything you went through in the process. Well,

527
00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:50,760
Speaker 1: I was in college for six years, so I was

528
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Speaker 1: in college for a long How many masters do you have?

529
00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:55,560
Speaker 1: One and a half? Okay, Yeah, I met a lot

530
00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:57,399
Speaker 1: of awesome people, you know, that kind of helped me

531
00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:00,600
Speaker 1: grow along the way. So it was a pretty pretty awesome,

532
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:04,160
Speaker 1: pretty awesome opportunity to transfer in North Carolina State. Met

533
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:06,000
Speaker 1: so many awesome friends that I'll be friends with, so

534
00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:08,960
Speaker 1: the dad dies and you did different things football wise too,

535
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:11,760
Speaker 1: which have to help you for this process, right, Yeah,

536
00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:13,800
Speaker 1: you know, throughout my career I had you know, I

537
00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:16,399
Speaker 1: had a lot of different quarterback coaches and a couple

538
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:19,840
Speaker 1: of different offensive coordinators, two head coaches, so definitely got

539
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:21,720
Speaker 1: to experience a lot of different a lot of different

540
00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:26,639
Speaker 1: coaching styles. After Finley, each team's taste will determine who

541
00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:30,880
Speaker 1: comes next. Will Greer won games at quarterback at Florida

542
00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:36,680
Speaker 1: and then blossomed as West Virginia's starter six seven. Tyree

543
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:40,480
Speaker 1: Jackson started at Buffalo for three years, but he put

544
00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:44,760
Speaker 1: up only numbers as a senior. Jackson is a great athlete.

545
00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:51,400
Speaker 1: Northwestern's Clayton Thorson through nearly seventeen hundred passes over four

546
00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:55,280
Speaker 1: years for the Wildcats, but he threw too many interceptions

547
00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:58,840
Speaker 1: for some evaluators. Thorson, however, did a lot of nice

548
00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:02,440
Speaker 1: things in Evanston with not a lot of NFL players

549
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:07,240
Speaker 1: around him. And then there's Auburn's Jared Stidham. You played

550
00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:09,560
Speaker 1: at Baylor, you played at Auburn. How much do you

551
00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:12,280
Speaker 1: feel like it helps you that you've been in different

552
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:17,640
Speaker 1: situations already and had to adapt your skills to different offenses. Oh,

553
00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:21,240
Speaker 1: that's That's been a tremendous part of my game the

554
00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:23,720
Speaker 1: last you know, four years, you know, playing in them

555
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:26,960
Speaker 1: Big twelve, playing in a system, and then jumping to

556
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:30,680
Speaker 1: the SEC, playing in an entire new conference. Um and

557
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:34,239
Speaker 1: in my opinion, the best conference, so to speak, and

558
00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:36,000
Speaker 1: you know, one that can really prepare you for the

559
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:38,120
Speaker 1: next level. You're gonna face a lot of great talent.

560
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:40,360
Speaker 1: And obviously I was in a new a new situation,

561
00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:42,480
Speaker 1: new system there, so you got to learn a whole

562
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:43,960
Speaker 1: lot of ball and got to see a lot of ball.

563
00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:46,760
Speaker 1: Coach Malzin has made it clear that you are a

564
00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:50,360
Speaker 1: player who does well under pressure. Why I think it's

565
00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:52,320
Speaker 1: it all comes down to confidence. I've always been very

566
00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:54,640
Speaker 1: confident in myself, you know, on and off the field,

567
00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:57,200
Speaker 1: and um, you know, every every time I step on

568
00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,280
Speaker 1: the field, I always feel like I'm the best player.

569
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Speaker 1: What does a team get that drafts? Jared's did a

570
00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 1: couple different things. Um, you get a leader, and um,

571
00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:10,560
Speaker 1: that's one of my one of my biggest qualities. And

572
00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:12,800
Speaker 1: I think it's got to be a quarterback's biggest quality

573
00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:15,200
Speaker 1: because if you're going to draft a guy to run

574
00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:18,160
Speaker 1: your organization for however many years, you got to be

575
00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:19,800
Speaker 1: able to lead that those guys in the locker room.

576
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:22,480
Speaker 1: So definitely a leader, somebody that's very confident, like I

577
00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:26,320
Speaker 1: said earlier, and obviously somebody that's that's willing to grow

578
00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:29,640
Speaker 1: in the game of football physically and mentally. What is

579
00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:32,520
Speaker 1: the most important question you feel like you have to

580
00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:35,800
Speaker 1: answer on the field or off for an NFL team

581
00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:38,160
Speaker 1: who wants to draft you. I think right now, the

582
00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:41,600
Speaker 1: biggest question I've continued to get is, you know, twenty

583
00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:44,040
Speaker 1: seventeen was was such a good year for us, and

584
00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:48,040
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen wasn't wasn't as good. So just trying to, uh,

585
00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:51,040
Speaker 1: you know, answer that question and kind of illustrate, you know,

586
00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:53,719
Speaker 1: what might have happened, um during that you know, this

587
00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:56,280
Speaker 1: last season. But like I said, it's been been a

588
00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:58,520
Speaker 1: huge blessing to be to be in this process, to

589
00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:02,120
Speaker 1: be in this situation. But Jared isn't dealing with adversity.

590
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:05,960
Speaker 1: Part of the quarterback's job. Absolutely, And I think when

591
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:08,880
Speaker 1: you talk about adversity, yeah, whether it's on the field

592
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:11,440
Speaker 1: or off the field, I think that can really mold somebody.

593
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:14,200
Speaker 1: And sure enough, over my life again on and off

594
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:16,400
Speaker 1: the field, it's really helped me mold into the man

595
00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:22,840
Speaker 1: I am today. I sure do like jared' Stidham. Yeah,

596
00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:25,120
Speaker 1: good guy. He's a good guy, good player at Alburn.

597
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:29,560
Speaker 1: Two other quarterbacks who are out there other names, and

598
00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:33,840
Speaker 1: we're listing some of them during this segment of the program.

599
00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:36,040
Speaker 1: One of the ones that jumps out to me when

600
00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:38,280
Speaker 1: I see the list, obviously as a guy in west End,

601
00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:41,160
Speaker 1: and I'm talking about Kyle Shermer, who is the son

602
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:44,880
Speaker 1: of Giants head coach Pat Shermer. Yeah, but he doesn't

603
00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:47,680
Speaker 1: want to be known as the son of Giants coach

604
00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:50,920
Speaker 1: Pat Shermer. I think that he is really focused on

605
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:53,200
Speaker 1: trying to make a name for himself in this league.

606
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:55,000
Speaker 1: He doesn't want to ride with the name that's on

607
00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 1: the back of his jersey. He wants to be Kyle Shermer,

608
00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:01,400
Speaker 1: the quarterback from Vandy, and that at his pro day

609
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:05,200
Speaker 1: he was super interested in making sure that he highlights

610
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:08,320
Speaker 1: his strengths, his accuracy, the throws that he's able to make,

611
00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:12,080
Speaker 1: to show that maybe some of the things that aren't

612
00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:15,360
Speaker 1: his strengths, his speed, his footwork, to show that he's

613
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:17,920
Speaker 1: still capable of being a good quarterback, even though he

614
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:19,880
Speaker 1: still has some things to learn and some things that

615
00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:22,120
Speaker 1: he wants to work on. So I think that he

616
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:26,080
Speaker 1: did a good job of separating himself but still being thankful,

617
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:28,280
Speaker 1: of course, for his family. He's very proud of his family,

618
00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:29,800
Speaker 1: but he wants to make a name for himself in

619
00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:32,479
Speaker 1: the national football ye and it's easy to understand, but

620
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:35,360
Speaker 1: that name is going to help him. I mean, it's

621
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:37,920
Speaker 1: going to be a benefit of the doubt in the process.

622
00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:41,400
Speaker 1: If somebody's thinking about a quarterback, they're going to say, well,

623
00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:44,040
Speaker 1: we may take Sherber. I mean, certainly he's been schooled

624
00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:46,800
Speaker 1: well between his dad and all the things brought up,

625
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:48,960
Speaker 1: and then he's played a lot of football at Vanderbilt

626
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:50,840
Speaker 1: and played well. Absolutely, And I had a chance to

627
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:53,280
Speaker 1: talk to him a little bit, and he said that

628
00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:55,959
Speaker 1: while this is a big moment for him and he

629
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:59,600
Speaker 1: wants to do it by himself, he also realizes that

630
00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:03,160
Speaker 1: he has had the opportunity to be in these environments

631
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:05,080
Speaker 1: and he knows a lot of the scouts and the

632
00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:08,040
Speaker 1: coaches that are there, so the stage didn't feel as

633
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:10,120
Speaker 1: big as it probably felt for some of those guys

634
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:14,040
Speaker 1: that were experiencing experiencing pro day. Who I got tongue tied.

635
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:17,240
Speaker 1: But Mike, I want to ask you what guys stood

636
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:20,040
Speaker 1: out to you? What quarterbacks on this list catch you? Well,

637
00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:23,120
Speaker 1: there's some other names as we moved to a second page,

638
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:25,960
Speaker 1: and when we look at that list, the one that

639
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:28,720
Speaker 1: grabs me automatically, just as a college football fan is

640
00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:33,239
Speaker 1: Jake Browning at Washington. Jake Browning had one of the

641
00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:36,840
Speaker 1: great college football seasons you will ever see as a

642
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:40,400
Speaker 1: sophomore in twenty sixteen. There were people who felt like

643
00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:42,760
Speaker 1: he had to come back and play twenty seventeen to

644
00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:47,080
Speaker 1: be draft eligible and then he would be a massive prospect. Well,

645
00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:49,600
Speaker 1: didn't work out that way. He didn't have a great

646
00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:53,160
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen. His twenty eighteen was okay. He just threw

647
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 1: thirty five touchdown passes over his last two years. But

648
00:33:56,760 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 1: this is a guy who I mean forty three touchdown

649
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:04,120
Speaker 1: pass is in twenty sixteen. He's got ability. He's Washington's

650
00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:08,160
Speaker 1: all time leading total offense leader. He's their all time

651
00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:11,239
Speaker 1: leading passer. He has every stat in the book, and

652
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:15,080
Speaker 1: I think his work on improving his arm strength and

653
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:18,600
Speaker 1: showing that to teams has been something that has grabbed

654
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:21,640
Speaker 1: a lot of people. So I'm not sure where teams

655
00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:25,160
Speaker 1: see him, but as a college football fan, knowing that

656
00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:28,720
Speaker 1: at one time two years ago he was talked about

657
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:32,640
Speaker 1: potentially as a top ten pick because of that year

658
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:35,839
Speaker 1: that he put up. Now, where does Jake Browning fall

659
00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:39,520
Speaker 1: in this process? And does somebody get a steal in

660
00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:43,000
Speaker 1: Jake Browning from Washington? It's definitely possible. There are a

661
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:45,640
Speaker 1: lot of things that can happen in the draft process,

662
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:47,920
Speaker 1: but it's going to be very fun to watch to

663
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:51,040
Speaker 1: see how boards change based on what happens early. Well.

664
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:54,360
Speaker 1: Jake Browning is a guy who and again this is

665
00:34:54,440 --> 00:35:01,359
Speaker 1: the quarterback draft of questions, Jake Browning is a guy

666
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:05,400
Speaker 1: like that. We talked earlier about Drew Locke, Kyler Murray's

667
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 1: only five ten, Dwayne Haskins has only started for one year,

668
00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:13,080
Speaker 1: and then there's the other one. The other one, and

669
00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:17,600
Speaker 1: we mentioned his name in the feature Daniel Jones at

670
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:23,000
Speaker 1: Duke Man. Are the evaluators arguing over this guy. Some

671
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:26,879
Speaker 1: people think he's top ten, top fifteen. Other people think

672
00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:29,759
Speaker 1: he's not gonna go in the first round. I had

673
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:34,320
Speaker 1: a chance to visit with Daniel Jones, and he certainly

674
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:38,719
Speaker 1: is impressive in the interview setting. One of the top

675
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:42,160
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the twenty nineteen NFL Draft is Daniel Jones

676
00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:45,960
Speaker 1: from Duke University, played for David Cutcliffe. One of the

677
00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:50,160
Speaker 1: next of the people in that line of quarterbacks that

678
00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:53,520
Speaker 1: have been successful under coach Cutcliffe. What did you learn

679
00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:57,000
Speaker 1: from him and from those guys who very much stay

680
00:35:57,440 --> 00:35:59,600
Speaker 1: part of his family. You know, one of the things

681
00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:02,000
Speaker 1: I think Coach Cutcliffe teach as well, it's just kind

682
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:06,000
Speaker 1: of the responsibility of playing the position, you know, on offense,

683
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:08,120
Speaker 1: and as a quarterback, you're in charge of that offense

684
00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:10,840
Speaker 1: and you know, if we're if we're not clicking or

685
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:12,480
Speaker 1: we're not moving the ball, it's you know, on the

686
00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:15,040
Speaker 1: quarterback shoulders to you know, make the correction and to

687
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:16,719
Speaker 1: get it right. And I think that, you know, his

688
00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:20,160
Speaker 1: expectations for kind of a quarterbacks game management an understanding

689
00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:22,759
Speaker 1: of an offense is you know, something I think was

690
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:25,400
Speaker 1: huge to my development and one thing that's really special

691
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:28,640
Speaker 1: about you in this process that people learned Duke was

692
00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:31,680
Speaker 1: your school, that's where you wanted to go, and and

693
00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:33,319
Speaker 1: you had to put it on the line to go

694
00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:36,120
Speaker 1: to Duke, didn't you. You had to say, this is

695
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:37,759
Speaker 1: what I want to do. I've got to go in

696
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:40,600
Speaker 1: there and prove myself to them. Yeah. So probably my

697
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:42,560
Speaker 1: sophomore in high school, I decided I really want to

698
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:45,000
Speaker 1: go to Duke. And at the time I was undersized

699
00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:48,120
Speaker 1: and kind of struggling to be recruited. But through my

700
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:51,000
Speaker 1: senior year, Coach Cutt he'd put me on scholarship in January.

701
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:53,160
Speaker 1: If one opened up sooner, he put me on then.

702
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:55,319
Speaker 1: And you know one actually opened up sooner, so I'll

703
00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:56,840
Speaker 1: put me on in the fall, and you know, have

704
00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:59,439
Speaker 1: the opportunity there to play for him, which was huge

705
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:03,000
Speaker 1: for me. Find what's an NFL team getting in Daniel Jones.

706
00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:05,480
Speaker 1: I think they're getting a you know, a tough competitor.

707
00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:07,920
Speaker 1: I think I'm someone who's you know, proven their their

708
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:10,480
Speaker 1: physical and mental toughness through my time at Duke. And

709
00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:12,799
Speaker 1: you know, I've always loved the opportunity to compete and

710
00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:15,440
Speaker 1: play the game. So you know, I think physically I

711
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:17,640
Speaker 1: can make all the throws I think after the athletic

712
00:37:17,719 --> 00:37:21,200
Speaker 1: ability to extend plays. So hopefully they're getting a you know,

713
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:28,759
Speaker 1: a complete player mentally and physically, as you could see

714
00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:31,480
Speaker 1: in that interview. One thing that's impressive about Daniel Jones.

715
00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:35,680
Speaker 1: He's very tall. He's very tall. He is six five

716
00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:38,279
Speaker 1: and that never hurts to be able to see over

717
00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:43,600
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. That David cutcliff pedigree. Yeah, you know,

718
00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:46,600
Speaker 1: you look at the quarterbacks that David Cutcliffe has put

719
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:48,600
Speaker 1: out over the years. David Cutcliffe says he is a

720
00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:52,319
Speaker 1: first round pick. All right, So teams that could take

721
00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:56,680
Speaker 1: a quarterback in the first round, does Arizona do it?

722
00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:02,560
Speaker 1: Could Oakland at four? Yeah, it's another one. They also

723
00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:05,399
Speaker 1: have twenty four and twenty seven. They have three first

724
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:10,760
Speaker 1: round picks. The Giants have number six, and they also

725
00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:16,120
Speaker 1: have number seventeen. Then there's talk about Detroit at eight

726
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:20,719
Speaker 1: in spite of Matthew Stafford being there, which do they

727
00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:25,880
Speaker 1: take the successor? Yeah, Denver at ten, which makes sense

728
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:29,279
Speaker 1: because you don't think Joe Flacco is there forever, right,

729
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:31,920
Speaker 1: although it seems like they take a pass rusher every

730
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:36,640
Speaker 1: year and it works out. Cincinnati at eleven, Yes, they've

731
00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:39,920
Speaker 1: been supposedly going to replace Andy Dalton since like two

732
00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:44,320
Speaker 1: thousand and one. Yeah, we've been talking about ASSISI feels

733
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:45,879
Speaker 1: like it feel like he's been there for a while.

734
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:52,279
Speaker 1: Miami at thirteen and then Washington at fifteen. Those are

735
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:54,279
Speaker 1: the teams that seem to be in the market. But

736
00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:59,879
Speaker 1: here's the thing. Arizona, Cliff Kingsbury's the new coach there. Right.

737
00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:04,799
Speaker 1: The perfect quarterback for Cliff Kingsbury's offense would seem to

738
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:09,239
Speaker 1: be on paper, Kyler Murray. The only thing is they

739
00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:14,480
Speaker 1: took Josh Rosen last year at number ten out of UCLA. Right,

740
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:19,480
Speaker 1: what do you think about Arizona and Kyler Murray and

741
00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:24,960
Speaker 1: Josh Rosen? There are so many different, very conceivable options

742
00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:27,440
Speaker 1: to me. Do I think that they try their best

743
00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:31,440
Speaker 1: to trade Josh Rosen? Sure, I mean there's no harm

744
00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:35,040
Speaker 1: in shopping them around, testing out the old pool a

745
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:38,160
Speaker 1: little bit. But at what cost? You know, what are

746
00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:41,279
Speaker 1: you trading for a guy like Josh Rosen? I don't know.

747
00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:42,960
Speaker 1: I don't know the answer. Well, I mean I think

748
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:46,360
Speaker 1: at that point you're if you're trying to trade Josh Rosen,

749
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:48,960
Speaker 1: you're saying we're taking Kyler Murder Well and That's what

750
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:52,200
Speaker 1: I'm saying. But it's the same general manager, Steve Kim,

751
00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:56,920
Speaker 1: who selected Josh Rosen last year. Last year, and I mean,

752
00:39:56,960 --> 00:40:00,720
Speaker 1: this doesn't really happen, No, it doesn't. And Kyler Murray

753
00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:03,319
Speaker 1: seems to fit that team so well. He seems like

754
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 1: the perfect quarterback for them. But Josh Rosen, I mean,

755
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:09,640
Speaker 1: he wasn't great, but he wasn't terrible. He was young.

756
00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:12,480
Speaker 1: He's a young guy. He's got a lot of upside,

757
00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:15,160
Speaker 1: tons of potential. Do you ride, do you dance with

758
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:17,640
Speaker 1: the girl that brought you? Or do you find a

759
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:20,760
Speaker 1: new girl? Is that how that goes? It's something like that. Okay,

760
00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:24,399
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. Answer more interceptions last

761
00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:27,000
Speaker 1: year than touchdown passes. He took a lot of hits.

762
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:31,000
Speaker 1: He was the tenth overall selection. In essence, he was

763
00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:34,720
Speaker 1: the Drew Locke of last year's draft. There were lots

764
00:40:34,719 --> 00:40:37,959
Speaker 1: of questions about him coming out of UCLA. I think

765
00:40:38,080 --> 00:40:41,239
Speaker 1: what it'll come down to is after a year, are

766
00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 1: the Cardinals totally sold on him? And if not, to

767
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:48,040
Speaker 1: your other point, what can they get and who would

768
00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:52,520
Speaker 1: be interested? We have some candidates for that, obviously, the Giants.

769
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:56,360
Speaker 1: They have Eli Manning. They have the two first round picks,

770
00:40:56,800 --> 00:41:00,680
Speaker 1: but they also have pick number thirty seven, which is

771
00:41:00,719 --> 00:41:04,920
Speaker 1: the one that you would think that Arizona would probably

772
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:09,960
Speaker 1: be trying to get. Miami is another choice. Miami is

773
00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:13,080
Speaker 1: a team in need of a quarterback right now. Their

774
00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:18,839
Speaker 1: quarterback is going to be Ryan Fitzpatrick. But with their rebuild,

775
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 1: would they rather wait another year on a quarterback and

776
00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:24,520
Speaker 1: go ahead and make all of these selections? You would

777
00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:27,200
Speaker 1: think that Arizona would be trying to get forty eight.

778
00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:31,120
Speaker 1: Obviously they're trying to get a one, but can they

779
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:33,759
Speaker 1: more a lot more logically they try to get the two?

780
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:37,400
Speaker 1: How about Oakland? Oakland is interesting. Oakland, it's interesting because

781
00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:41,120
Speaker 1: they have the three ones, but they also have that

782
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:46,160
Speaker 1: really high number two at thirty five. So if they're

783
00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:48,920
Speaker 1: ready to give up on Derek Carr, do they go

784
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:53,440
Speaker 1: after Josh Rosen? We'll see. And then here's the one

785
00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:57,200
Speaker 1: that jumps out to me. Case Keenom is now in Washington,

786
00:41:58,280 --> 00:42:03,279
Speaker 1: but Washington, do they give up forty six, which is

787
00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:06,200
Speaker 1: their second round pick, for Josh Rosen as their quarterback

788
00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:08,720
Speaker 1: of the future, And do you get a first round

789
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:11,680
Speaker 1: talent with a second round pick this year? There you

790
00:42:11,719 --> 00:42:16,400
Speaker 1: see Washington, they also have seventy six and ninety six.

791
00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:20,160
Speaker 1: So does Arizona just take what they can get? It

792
00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:23,120
Speaker 1: would be smarter for them to wait as long as

793
00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:25,799
Speaker 1: they can to try to get a better pick, to

794
00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:28,759
Speaker 1: not tip their hand. I mean, if they trade Josh

795
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:33,359
Speaker 1: Rosen today, Amy, then everybody knows they're taking Kyler Murray, right,

796
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:37,719
Speaker 1: So they'd like to wait twenty more days get closer

797
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:40,880
Speaker 1: to be able to leverage this as best as possible.

798
00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:45,359
Speaker 1: But if you're gonna be getting Josh Rosen and you're

799
00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:49,239
Speaker 1: trading for him, don't you want him to start your

800
00:42:49,239 --> 00:42:52,080
Speaker 1: offseason workouts as soon as possible? Right? And that's the

801
00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:54,080
Speaker 1: part that not a lot of people talk about, is

802
00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:56,320
Speaker 1: that guys are starting to come back to their programs.

803
00:42:56,360 --> 00:42:58,920
Speaker 1: They're starting to get back in the building and start

804
00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:02,080
Speaker 1: the install process, start learning new playbooks if you have

805
00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:04,800
Speaker 1: a new coaching staff, so all of that starting to happen.

806
00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:07,759
Speaker 1: So if you're bringing in a new quarterback, you don't

807
00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:09,759
Speaker 1: really want them to be behind in all of that

808
00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:13,400
Speaker 1: process either. So the clock is kind of ticking on

809
00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:15,960
Speaker 1: a lot of these things to try and take shape

810
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:18,920
Speaker 1: a little bit more. It's going to be fun to watch.

811
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:20,719
Speaker 1: The next two weeks are going to be crazy. It's

812
00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:24,080
Speaker 1: gonna be crazy. I think in looking at how this

813
00:43:24,160 --> 00:43:28,719
Speaker 1: affects the Tennessee Titans, the quarterback position. The titans first

814
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:33,280
Speaker 1: round pick is at nineteen. If we assume the Titans

815
00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:35,919
Speaker 1: are not going to take a quarterback at nineteen, which

816
00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:39,520
Speaker 1: is the general assumption out there, then it would be

817
00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:43,160
Speaker 1: better for the Titans the more quarterbacks go in front

818
00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:47,160
Speaker 1: of that pick. Do we think four get selected in

819
00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:50,719
Speaker 1: the first eighteen based on all of this information, I

820
00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:54,880
Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised. Really. There are teams, especially teams that

821
00:43:54,960 --> 00:43:58,520
Speaker 1: have a lot of picks in the first round. You

822
00:43:58,680 --> 00:44:02,759
Speaker 1: have that the capitol, you have the currency to be

823
00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:06,200
Speaker 1: able to take an offensive and defensive players. You have

824
00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:09,440
Speaker 1: the currency to take a quarterback and a great edge

825
00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:12,160
Speaker 1: rusher or a quarterback in something else. A lot of

826
00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:14,520
Speaker 1: these teams can kind of do that just with what

827
00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:18,520
Speaker 1: they've acquired through trades or however, some of these teams

828
00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:21,680
Speaker 1: get four hundred first round picks. It feels like so.

829
00:44:21,719 --> 00:44:23,759
Speaker 1: I think that you're there are some teams earlier in

830
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:26,240
Speaker 1: the draft that would have the ability to do things

831
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:29,520
Speaker 1: like that. And if that's the case, We've got some

832
00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:32,080
Speaker 1: big names that can fall to nineteen, and that's what

833
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:34,319
Speaker 1: I'm looking for. Okay, let's take a look at the

834
00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:38,839
Speaker 1: Titans quarterback depth at this point, and while the speculation

835
00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:42,439
Speaker 1: with Marcus Mariota and Ryan Tannehill, two former first round

836
00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:45,399
Speaker 1: picks on the roster, two guys who've started a lot

837
00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:48,000
Speaker 1: of games, two guys that are going to be on

838
00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:54,359
Speaker 1: this roster, do the Tennessee Titans select a quarterback anywhere

839
00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:58,160
Speaker 1: in this draft? Last year, they took Luke Falk in

840
00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:02,239
Speaker 1: the sixth round. They waived him, tried to get him

841
00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:05,160
Speaker 1: through the practice squad, Miami claimed him and took him away.

842
00:45:05,560 --> 00:45:08,919
Speaker 1: Do they try to do that again with a draft pick,

843
00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:11,360
Speaker 1: knowing that they have picks in each of the first

844
00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:15,279
Speaker 1: six rounds. I think it's a debatable question. Or do

845
00:45:15,360 --> 00:45:19,560
Speaker 1: they simply bring in another veteran. Austin Davis is now

846
00:45:19,600 --> 00:45:21,799
Speaker 1: a coach in Seattle. But do they bring in an

847
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:25,920
Speaker 1: Austin Davis type guy for camp and maybe try to

848
00:45:25,960 --> 00:45:29,120
Speaker 1: get a quarterback later to put on practice squad. I've

849
00:45:29,160 --> 00:45:31,480
Speaker 1: been thinking about this for a while now. I gave

850
00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:34,960
Speaker 1: you weekend home, you gave me weekend homework, and initially

851
00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:38,040
Speaker 1: I thought, of course, they'll find a quarterback in the

852
00:45:38,120 --> 00:45:41,440
Speaker 1: later rounds. There is a lot of interesting talent at

853
00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:44,440
Speaker 1: that quarterback position in the draft this year. Sure, grab

854
00:45:44,520 --> 00:45:47,000
Speaker 1: one late, have him be around, kind of give him

855
00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:49,279
Speaker 1: that red shirt year to kind of learn how things go.

856
00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:52,880
Speaker 1: Love that idea, But then I started crunching the numbers

857
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:55,759
Speaker 1: a little bit, and I started thinking about the long

858
00:45:55,840 --> 00:45:58,120
Speaker 1: term implications of that, because you don't want him to

859
00:45:58,120 --> 00:46:00,520
Speaker 1: get poached off the practice squad like what happened with

860
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:05,680
Speaker 1: Luke Falk. You don't want You also have to think

861
00:46:05,719 --> 00:46:08,200
Speaker 1: about the fact that then you're carrying three quarterbacks and

862
00:46:08,360 --> 00:46:10,920
Speaker 1: he's going to be inactive. One of your inactives is

863
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:15,879
Speaker 1: taken up every game, right with the rookie quarterback, So

864
00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:19,359
Speaker 1: that basically means you're working with a fifty two man roster, right,

865
00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:22,319
Speaker 1: So do you want to burn a position basically to

866
00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:27,160
Speaker 1: give him a red shirt ear? I don't know. So

867
00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:30,239
Speaker 1: while initially my first thought was yes, the Titans will

868
00:46:30,280 --> 00:46:32,880
Speaker 1: take a quarterback in the late rounds, now I'm thinking

869
00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:35,000
Speaker 1: tho's probably not going to happen. I think that we're

870
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:38,040
Speaker 1: going to go with Marcus Mariota, go with Ryan Tannehill,

871
00:46:38,440 --> 00:46:40,799
Speaker 1: and if things get weird, and what you may be

872
00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:43,920
Speaker 1: able to do is somebody else may draft one of

873
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:48,160
Speaker 1: these quarterbacks, and then you are able to sneak in

874
00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:51,920
Speaker 1: and grab them after the final cuts are made and

875
00:46:52,040 --> 00:46:53,920
Speaker 1: keep him on practice squad throughout the year, and then

876
00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:57,000
Speaker 1: if somebody tries to snag him, then you could call

877
00:46:57,080 --> 00:46:59,200
Speaker 1: him up at that point. Right, But that gives you

878
00:46:59,239 --> 00:47:03,680
Speaker 1: a lot more flexibility than committing to carrying three. We

879
00:47:03,719 --> 00:47:07,080
Speaker 1: know John Robinson loves flexibility in his rush. Oh absolutely.

880
00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:10,000
Speaker 1: So we'll see where the Titans fall with the quarterbacks

881
00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:12,400
Speaker 1: this year. But those are some of the names and

882
00:47:12,520 --> 00:47:15,879
Speaker 1: some of the stories and the quarterback draft. Even if

883
00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:19,040
Speaker 1: the Titans don't pick one, it's certainly going to impact

884
00:47:19,040 --> 00:47:21,920
Speaker 1: the Titans early on about who does pick one. Yep,

885
00:47:22,120 --> 00:47:24,680
Speaker 1: I want to stay with the quarterbacks. Okay, we did

886
00:47:24,719 --> 00:47:30,960
Speaker 1: something really special. We sent Amy Wells last week to Hawaii.

887
00:47:31,239 --> 00:47:35,880
Speaker 1: It was special to spend time with Mike Duel from

888
00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:38,480
Speaker 1: our staff and Tdd Gray from our staff, to spend

889
00:47:38,520 --> 00:47:43,640
Speaker 1: time with Marcus Mariota in Hawaii, to spend time with

890
00:47:43,760 --> 00:47:48,759
Speaker 1: him at his Motivate golf tournament. And Amy, can you

891
00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:54,319
Speaker 1: describe around this tournament the feeling that you got that

892
00:47:54,480 --> 00:47:58,759
Speaker 1: those folks in Hawaii have about number eight. Marcus Mariota

893
00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:01,799
Speaker 1: to them is the fit physical embodiment of what being

894
00:48:01,840 --> 00:48:04,799
Speaker 1: a Hawaiian is. They call it the Aloha spirit, and

895
00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:09,319
Speaker 1: it's all about generosity and gratitude and being humble and

896
00:48:09,400 --> 00:48:12,359
Speaker 1: being kind and those are all the things that we

897
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:15,960
Speaker 1: see from Marcus Mariota day in and day out back

898
00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:19,160
Speaker 1: home in Hawaii. Everyone is so proud that that is

899
00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:22,040
Speaker 1: the man that he's become. That's exactly what the Aloha

900
00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:26,520
Speaker 1: spirit is. And telling him that and being able to say,

901
00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:29,160
Speaker 1: this is what people think about you. He was so

902
00:48:29,960 --> 00:48:33,239
Speaker 1: proud and it was really cool to see him in

903
00:48:33,320 --> 00:49:06,040
Speaker 1: his element. But this event is called a Motivate Golf

904
00:49:06,560 --> 00:49:11,080
Speaker 1: Tournament and it's helped to raise money for markets foundation

905
00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:15,480
Speaker 1: in which he helps to give an opportunity for underprivileged

906
00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:21,240
Speaker 1: students or kids that are interested in attending a private

907
00:49:21,280 --> 00:49:24,120
Speaker 1: school and give them an opportunity to have an education

908
00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:28,759
Speaker 1: at at a different type of setting. And he also

909
00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:32,680
Speaker 1: does a lot of other charity work with the homeless kids,

910
00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:35,880
Speaker 1: that special Olympics and so forth. So all of those

911
00:49:35,960 --> 00:49:54,120
Speaker 1: kids will be benefiting from this event or learned at

912
00:49:54,120 --> 00:49:59,040
Speaker 1: a young age from my parents. They've always, no matter what,

913
00:49:59,360 --> 00:50:04,200
Speaker 1: have done their best to give back and serve. And really,

914
00:50:04,360 --> 00:50:06,520
Speaker 1: I just kind of want to motivate to be that

915
00:50:06,800 --> 00:50:09,520
Speaker 1: for for people. You know, they help serve my brother

916
00:50:09,560 --> 00:50:11,600
Speaker 1: and I and I hopefully motivate can be kind of

917
00:50:11,600 --> 00:50:20,719
Speaker 1: that avenue, that support system that my parents were for them.

918
00:50:20,760 --> 00:50:23,480
Speaker 1: So really the mission is to help underprivileged youth and

919
00:50:23,560 --> 00:50:26,880
Speaker 1: homeless um. And really we we've kind of taken it.

920
00:50:26,920 --> 00:50:29,520
Speaker 1: So it's it's here in Hawaii, it's in Oregon and

921
00:50:29,600 --> 00:50:32,160
Speaker 1: also in Nashville. And what we try to do is

922
00:50:32,200 --> 00:50:34,920
Speaker 1: money that's raised here in Hawaii or in Oregan or Nashville,

923
00:50:34,920 --> 00:50:37,800
Speaker 1: we tend to flush it back into the community. UM,

924
00:50:37,840 --> 00:50:40,360
Speaker 1: so that people that live here understand that their dollars

925
00:50:40,440 --> 00:50:42,760
Speaker 1: being spent you know where they live and they're affecting

926
00:50:42,760 --> 00:50:45,440
Speaker 1: the people around them. UM. But yeah, we've done back

927
00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:48,280
Speaker 1: to school backpacks, UM. You know, especially here in Hawaii,

928
00:50:48,280 --> 00:50:52,240
Speaker 1: we've done a few. We've we've sponsored football camps. UM.

929
00:50:52,239 --> 00:50:56,879
Speaker 1: We've done kind of everything from shower buses to you know,

930
00:50:57,280 --> 00:51:01,120
Speaker 1: really like giving meals and food. And you know, I

931
00:51:01,239 --> 00:51:04,759
Speaker 1: just very blest the amount of support, whether it's here

932
00:51:04,840 --> 00:51:07,719
Speaker 1: or the other couple of places. You know, it's been incredible,

933
00:51:12,920 --> 00:51:15,520
Speaker 1: all right. Not his best shot there that we end with,

934
00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:18,000
Speaker 1: but a good shot of the quarterback. I have three

935
00:51:18,080 --> 00:51:20,480
Speaker 1: questions from you from your trip to the Motivate Golf

936
00:51:20,520 --> 00:51:26,399
Speaker 1: tournament in Hawaii. Marcus Mariota is a relaxed man when

937
00:51:26,440 --> 00:51:29,319
Speaker 1: he's in Hawaii, isn't he? Absolutely? And it's hard to

938
00:51:29,360 --> 00:51:32,319
Speaker 1: not be. It's beautiful there, But Marcus Mariota was in

939
00:51:32,480 --> 00:51:36,080
Speaker 1: his element. He was in his hometown. He was surrounded

940
00:51:36,120 --> 00:51:40,200
Speaker 1: by his friends and family. It was one hunder his element.

941
00:51:40,239 --> 00:51:43,239
Speaker 1: It was exactly where Marcus Mariota would be all the

942
00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:45,920
Speaker 1: time if we gave him the chance. The reports out

943
00:51:45,960 --> 00:51:48,480
Speaker 1: of Hawaii last week said that he is trying to

944
00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:51,840
Speaker 1: gain weight. From the shots we saw in the feature,

945
00:51:52,520 --> 00:51:55,040
Speaker 1: he appears thicker. Did he appear that way to you

946
00:51:55,080 --> 00:51:59,040
Speaker 1: in person? He did. He looked bigger, he looked stronger almost,

947
00:51:59,040 --> 00:52:01,040
Speaker 1: and he said that he's trying to put some weight

948
00:52:01,080 --> 00:52:03,160
Speaker 1: on just to bulk up and try to stay a

949
00:52:03,200 --> 00:52:06,640
Speaker 1: little bit healthier to improve his longevity throughout the season.

950
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:10,560
Speaker 1: Horonas Grussoo, I think I saw him in that video,

951
00:52:10,960 --> 00:52:14,239
Speaker 1: the New Titans offensive lineman who was Marcus his teammate

952
00:52:14,520 --> 00:52:17,839
Speaker 1: at Oregon. You had a chance to visit with Horonas right,

953
00:52:18,080 --> 00:52:20,839
Speaker 1: I did. He was at the golf tournament, and it

954
00:52:20,880 --> 00:52:23,719
Speaker 1: turns out that him and Marcus Mariota are way more

955
00:52:23,760 --> 00:52:27,800
Speaker 1: than just college teammates. They're really good friends. Heronas obviously

956
00:52:27,920 --> 00:52:29,719
Speaker 1: is moving to Nashville in a couple of weeks to

957
00:52:29,760 --> 00:52:32,640
Speaker 1: start the offseason program. He's gonna be living with Marcus.

958
00:52:32,920 --> 00:52:35,279
Speaker 1: So these guys go way back. They know each other

959
00:52:35,320 --> 00:52:37,480
Speaker 1: super well, both on the field and off the field,

960
00:52:37,560 --> 00:52:40,640
Speaker 1: which can only be a good thing for the Tennessee Titans. Tomorrow,

961
00:52:41,080 --> 00:52:44,640
Speaker 1: on the OTP Road to Nashville, you're sit down with

962
00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:47,120
Speaker 1: Marcus where you, as we like to say in the South,

963
00:52:47,160 --> 00:52:49,640
Speaker 1: talk ball. We do talk about did they say that

964
00:52:49,680 --> 00:52:54,120
Speaker 1: in Hawaii? Yeah? Talking with an aloha aloha talking. That's

965
00:52:54,160 --> 00:52:58,680
Speaker 1: tomorrow a really great conversation about Marcus. That's something you're

966
00:52:58,680 --> 00:53:01,319
Speaker 1: gonna want to watch for tomorrow. One thing that we're

967
00:53:01,360 --> 00:53:03,880
Speaker 1: going to do on the OTP Road to Nashville is

968
00:53:03,920 --> 00:53:06,839
Speaker 1: take three of your questions. Tell people how they could

969
00:53:06,880 --> 00:53:09,560
Speaker 1: submit the questions. Amy, Well, you get on the Twitter machine,

970
00:53:09,640 --> 00:53:12,680
Speaker 1: go to hasteg No, there's no hashtag for this. Just

971
00:53:12,680 --> 00:53:16,600
Speaker 1: send them straight to me. That's so much easier at Titans, Amy, Amie.

972
00:53:16,880 --> 00:53:18,839
Speaker 1: Send them right to me and we'll ask them right

973
00:53:18,840 --> 00:53:21,000
Speaker 1: here on the OTP Road to Nashville. Fire Away, we

974
00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:23,120
Speaker 1: take three. I was gonna say, I've got three for you.

975
00:53:23,440 --> 00:53:25,920
Speaker 1: The first one is from Titans. Bob, I like that

976
00:53:26,040 --> 00:53:29,799
Speaker 1: name in Winchester. He asks, could the Titans take a

977
00:53:29,880 --> 00:53:32,480
Speaker 1: running back somewhere in this draft? Yes, I mean I

978
00:53:32,480 --> 00:53:37,640
Speaker 1: think it's possible. It would feel like that's probably day three,

979
00:53:38,760 --> 00:53:41,480
Speaker 1: unless there's just somebody they love. And that's the thing

980
00:53:41,520 --> 00:53:44,000
Speaker 1: you never know about boards. You will hear us say

981
00:53:44,040 --> 00:53:48,239
Speaker 1: that a lot during the OTP Road to Nashville is

982
00:53:48,360 --> 00:53:52,160
Speaker 1: we don't know what the Titans board looks like. So

983
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:54,560
Speaker 1: there could be a guy on there that they say

984
00:53:54,680 --> 00:53:57,160
Speaker 1: he's just so good we can't pass him up, regardless

985
00:53:57,160 --> 00:53:59,600
Speaker 1: of position. Maybe there's a running back like that. Don't

986
00:53:59,640 --> 00:54:03,120
Speaker 1: know it. In terms of the math, the numbers say

987
00:54:03,480 --> 00:54:07,279
Speaker 1: it's a Day three. It's somebody who does something special,

988
00:54:07,600 --> 00:54:10,120
Speaker 1: because remember right now, they have Derrick Henry, they have

989
00:54:10,200 --> 00:54:12,880
Speaker 1: Dion Lewis, they have David Flewell, and all three of

990
00:54:12,880 --> 00:54:15,719
Speaker 1: those guys on the roster along with a couple others,

991
00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:17,520
Speaker 1: so you would feel like it's a guy who could

992
00:54:17,560 --> 00:54:21,200
Speaker 1: really catch or who might have returnability. There will also

993
00:54:21,239 --> 00:54:24,080
Speaker 1: be guys like that available as undrafted. So I think

994
00:54:24,080 --> 00:54:27,560
Speaker 1: it's possible, but I think it's a push, all right.

995
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:32,680
Speaker 1: Lloyd in Kent, Washington asks several mocks have the Titans

996
00:54:32,719 --> 00:54:36,080
Speaker 1: taking a center or a guard in the first round. Now,

997
00:54:36,080 --> 00:54:38,160
Speaker 1: with all the money that the Titans have invested in

998
00:54:38,160 --> 00:54:43,360
Speaker 1: the offensive line, that seems crazy, But is it? I

999
00:54:43,400 --> 00:54:47,919
Speaker 1: don't think it's crazy, because again, John Robinson has done

1000
00:54:48,040 --> 00:54:52,239
Speaker 1: things in free agency to fill immediate needs. He got

1001
00:54:52,280 --> 00:54:55,399
Speaker 1: a veteran receiver, he got an offensive lineman, he got

1002
00:54:55,400 --> 00:54:58,480
Speaker 1: an edge rusher, and then through a trade he's improved

1003
00:54:58,560 --> 00:55:02,640
Speaker 1: himself at backup quarterback. He resigned Kenny Vaccaro, he resigned

1004
00:55:02,719 --> 00:55:06,400
Speaker 1: Kevin palm Field, so there's not anything that he has

1005
00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:10,439
Speaker 1: to do. Amy if that special guy was just there

1006
00:55:10,480 --> 00:55:15,160
Speaker 1: at nineteen and he was an offensive lineman, John will

1007
00:55:15,160 --> 00:55:17,880
Speaker 1: stay true to his board. I don't think it's It

1008
00:55:17,920 --> 00:55:21,520
Speaker 1: doesn't feel as likely, but it's certainly not crazy. See,

1009
00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:24,000
Speaker 1: I like the crazy. I'm in for the crazy. Last

1010
00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:27,360
Speaker 1: one is from Frank in Nashville. He asks could the

1011
00:55:27,400 --> 00:55:31,360
Speaker 1: Titans go defense with four of their six draft picks.

1012
00:55:31,560 --> 00:55:35,000
Speaker 1: Could they take multiple defensive lineman, Yes, and yes they

1013
00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:37,160
Speaker 1: could take they could go defense. This is a great

1014
00:55:37,160 --> 00:55:40,759
Speaker 1: defensive draft and draft, and it is a great defensive

1015
00:55:40,800 --> 00:55:45,000
Speaker 1: line draft. Yes, that is certainly a possibility that they

1016
00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:48,200
Speaker 1: could go in that direction because the Titans have some

1017
00:55:48,320 --> 00:55:51,279
Speaker 1: needs in the front seven, and it's cost effective for

1018
00:55:51,320 --> 00:55:55,480
Speaker 1: the future. Remember that you've got some contracts coming up

1019
00:55:55,480 --> 00:55:58,280
Speaker 1: at other places, You're gonna have to spend some money.

1020
00:55:58,520 --> 00:56:00,560
Speaker 1: You would like it if some places on the football

1021
00:56:00,600 --> 00:56:04,080
Speaker 1: team weren't as expensive. If you can get great talent

1022
00:56:04,200 --> 00:56:07,239
Speaker 1: at some of those positions and keep the cost down

1023
00:56:07,280 --> 00:56:08,759
Speaker 1: for the next couple of years, it would be a

1024
00:56:08,760 --> 00:56:11,080
Speaker 1: good thing. All right. Well that was take three again.

1025
00:56:11,160 --> 00:56:13,680
Speaker 1: If you want us to answer your questions right here

1026
00:56:13,719 --> 00:56:16,680
Speaker 1: on the OTP Road to Nashville, tweet them at me

1027
00:56:17,239 --> 00:56:21,440
Speaker 1: at Titans Amy am I tomorrow on the OTP Road

1028
00:56:21,480 --> 00:56:25,760
Speaker 1: to Nashville, Amy Wells sit down in Hawaii from last

1029
00:56:25,800 --> 00:56:29,440
Speaker 1: week with Marcus Mariota. You do not want to miss it.

1030
00:56:29,840 --> 00:56:32,719
Speaker 1: Jim Wyatt, the Great Jim Watt from Titans Online dot

1031
00:56:32,760 --> 00:56:35,480
Speaker 1: Com going to talk a lot of ball, including a

1032
00:56:35,520 --> 00:56:37,840
Speaker 1: look at the Indianapolis Colts and what they've done in

1033
00:56:37,840 --> 00:56:40,719
Speaker 1: the offseason. And you're going to meet our marketing coordinator,

1034
00:56:40,760 --> 00:56:44,400
Speaker 1: Toak Sequoya, who wants to get you the Titans fans

1035
00:56:44,920 --> 00:56:49,560
Speaker 1: involved in the draft. Remember twenty four days until players

1036
00:56:49,600 --> 00:56:53,719
Speaker 1: are drafted in Nashville. And remember you could subscribe to

1037
00:56:53,800 --> 00:56:56,719
Speaker 1: the OTP at Titans Online dot com, Slash podcast, or

1038
00:56:56,760 --> 00:57:00,880
Speaker 1: anywhere you get a podcast. Also a reminder, Titans Draft

1039
00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:04,960
Speaker 1: day hats are out as of today. As of April first,

1040
00:57:05,480 --> 00:57:08,320
Speaker 1: get yours at the Titans Pro Shop at Nissan Stadium

1041
00:57:08,560 --> 00:57:15,040
Speaker 1: on the Interstate side by Gate one, and online as well.

1042
00:57:15,200 --> 00:57:18,200
Speaker 1: You can get yourself at Titans locker Room dot com.

1043
00:57:18,240 --> 00:57:20,960
Speaker 1: You can get yourself one of these hats with the

1044
00:57:20,960 --> 00:57:23,640
Speaker 1: state flag of Tennessee right there. We'll give you a

1045
00:57:23,640 --> 00:57:27,240
Speaker 1: special handshaker specials. If you get your hat. There's a

1046
00:57:27,320 --> 00:57:29,880
Speaker 1: red one with blue. I'm gonna have to I'm gonna

1047
00:57:29,920 --> 00:57:32,400
Speaker 1: have to get both models. We're glad you're back in town.

1048
00:57:32,520 --> 00:57:35,320
Speaker 1: It feels good to be back. No, Hawaii was nice,

1049
00:57:35,360 --> 00:57:38,400
Speaker 1: but looking forward to that interview with Marcus Mariota tomorrow.

1050
00:57:38,720 --> 00:57:42,240
Speaker 1: Tomorrow we're back with the OTP Road to Nashville. Thank you,

1051
00:57:42,280 --> 00:57:45,040
Speaker 1: so much for joining us, for Amy Wells and our

1052
00:57:45,080 --> 00:57:48,640
Speaker 1: outstanding crew. Here. My name is Mike Keith. Player is

1053
00:57:48,680 --> 00:57:51,520
Speaker 1: going to be drafted in Nashville in just twenty four days.

1054
00:57:51,640 --> 00:58:07,560
Speaker 1: Draft month is here. If I'm back down, I'm never

1055
00:58:07,680 --> 00:58:11,240
Speaker 1: gonna quit on the side of the track, Somemetown kid.

1056
00:58:11,360 --> 00:58:16,200
Speaker 1: I don't want that you heard about outside of the crowd.

1057
00:58:17,640 --> 00:58:20,400
Speaker 1: Art on my sleeve and I'm beating my chests. Got

1058
00:58:20,400 --> 00:58:23,760
Speaker 1: a line of enemies, but I never lose rest. Everythinning

1059
00:58:23,880 --> 00:58:27,800
Speaker 1: that I get out heard one day, I'm gonna learn.

1060
00:58:34,800 --> 00:58:46,680
Speaker 1: I war, I'm winning. I ain't even keeping score. It's

1061
00:58:46,680 --> 00:58:50,800
Speaker 1: a movement or a vival, and you ain't win me

1062
00:58:50,920 --> 00:59:06,080
Speaker 1: on arrival rival. It was since was young, I cut

1063
00:59:06,160 --> 00:59:08,800
Speaker 1: my own path. You can go may fun. I'm gonna

1064
00:59:08,840 --> 00:59:11,680
Speaker 1: get the last path by my tip of the world. Now.

1065
00:59:12,640 --> 00:59:14,800
Speaker 1: If you don't like it, you can shut your mouth.

1066
00:59:15,080 --> 00:59:25,200
Speaker 1: I'm singing light I wrong more. I war, I'm gonna winning.

1067
00:59:25,320 --> 00:59:34,960
Speaker 1: I ain't even keep a store. It's a movement or

1068
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Speaker 1: a vival. Damn, you ain't with me on the ble